Wednesday, November 28, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO GYBN FOR THEIR BIODIVERSITY AWARD!

Congratulations to Dayna Noltie of Canada and the Global Youth Biodiversity Network for their excellent work in networking youth internationally and their presence at COP11 in India. The award was presented by Biodiversitymatters and Director Mike Leveille (Above) at a recent gala in Ottawa.

Dayna Noltie first became
involved with biodiversity work through creating educational conferences for
over 300 local youth with the organization Protect Our Water and Environmental
Resources. In 2009 she was an active participant in the Second International Youth Symposium for Biodiversity held in Ottawa. In further collaboration with
POWER, she prepared the Canadian Youth Delegation to the United
Nations 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, held in Nagoya, Japan.She
also facilitated international youth participation in this meeting through
online communication and the creation of two side events, one about
international youth biodiversity projects and the other about a potential
platform for participation at the Convention.For the past two years she has worked to make this potential platform a
reality as a member of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network Interim Steering
Committee.This past summer she finally
succeeded in this goal, travelling to Berlin, Germany, for the Official
Kick-Off Meeting of the Network.She is
currently completing a Bachelor of Health Sciences at the University of Western
Ontario, and hopes that one day youth participation at the Convention on
Biological Diversity will parallel that seen at the Convention on Climate
Change.